Giving Voice is a national campaign led by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists which aims to demonstrate how speech and language therapy makes a difference to people with speech, language and communication needs, their families, and wider society.
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Friday, 21 December 2012

Merry Christmas!

December
has been a busy month so far and I’ve had little time to blog, therefore this
is a little bit of everything!

On 7th December,
I attended the annual charity ball of Heel and Toe, at the Civic Centre,
Newcastle. This was a brilliant night supporting a fantastic charity.

What they do:

“Heel & Toe Children’s Charity provides free therapy to children with Cerebral
Palsy, Dyspraxia and any other movement condition. This is
provided through a system of learning calledConductive
Education. Any child can benefit
and parents/carers are encouraged to take an active role in their own
development.” Check out their website for more information.

I am
extremely grateful that Heel and Toe regularly retweet my Giving Voice blog! I
also met Brendan Healy, comedian, on the night and I thanked him personally for
retweeting my blog (as my dad was taking our photo!) It was a pleasure to meet
him, though I (foolishly) told him I’m from Ashington which led to our table being
‘picked on' a little bit (all in good fun!)

Brendan Healy and me

I wrote
to the News Post Leader following my Giving Voice award and was pleased to see
they published a short piece in the paper and on line last week – click here to
read the article.

I was delighted that
React2 asked me to be their guest blogger, where I wrote about Giving Voice. React2.com
is an online-based, interactive
speech and language therapy tool for adults and children with a communication
impairment due to:

On Tuesday
night I attended the first Giving Voice working group meeting (via telephone) and
this has made me even more enthusiastic about the campaigning year ahead! If you want to get involved in the working group contact Emma at RCSLT for more information emma.barnes@rcslt.org

I
probably won’t get the chance to blog again before Christmas so here's wishing you a Merry Christmas! I will hopefully do a final blog of the year!

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About Me

My name is Julie Carr and I am a Speech and Language Therapist. I'm from Ashington, Northumberland, just returned home after 2 years living and working in Leeds. I have been involved in the Giving Voice campaign since 2011 :-) I am overwhelmed and delighted to have won two Giving Voice awards. I am passionate about the profession and supporting people with communication difficulties reach their full potential. I'm always smiling and like to talk A LOT! :-) Thanks for checking out my blogs! I completed the Great North Run 2014 in aid of the North East Trust for Aphasia 2014 and I blogged about this too! Please feel free to comment or share them, I'd love to hear from you!